Quotes about Productivity

At sunrise it always seems like you've got a good crack at getting everything done, but at sunset you know that you didn't.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time.

It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

When we set and achieve goals that are in our Center of Focus, we maximize the use of our time and effort. Interestingly, we find that as we do this over time, our Circle of Influence automatically increases. We find positive ways to influence more people and circumstances.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As

The key is to not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Do what is important rather than what is urgent.